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So what neighborhood would be consider a Black Epicenter? Basically a melting pot of different classes, different belief systems, subgroups, religions, vibrant, history, local popular establishments/restaurants. What predominately Black neighborhood would fit that description in your city. Like if someone were to visit your city what neighborhood would you take them to that would be a good representation of the cities local Black population. And keep in mind some cities might have more than 1 Black epicenter.
Also I'm not talking about areas that are predominately low income full of blight and crime. Not to say that any neighborhood that would qualify as a epicenter has no crime or some blight but that a neighborhood that's a Black epicenter is so much more than that.
Examples of the communities I'm talking about.
1. New York City has 2 I can think of off the top of my head. You can probably do one for each borough.
Harlem=Manhattan
Brooklyn=Bedford-Stuyvesant
2. Leimert Park=Los Angeles
The equivalent to that in Houston would be 3rd Ward. There are plenty of historic predominately Black neighborhoods in Houston. Neighborhoods like Acres Homes, 5th Ward and Freedman's Town have a proud history and their own set of popular establishments and cultural impact. But not at the same level as 3rd Ward. These areas lack a Black middle class presence or lack the diverse Black population that 3rd Ward has. They don't have as many Black institutions that cater to a variety of different people. Acres Homes and 5th Ward do come close though and are to be respected but it's not the same in modern times.
"(Beautiful Uptown) Grove Hall" along Blue Hill Ave. The border of Central Roxbury and Dorchester. Just South/Southeast of Nubian Square. For the Metro as a whole It would be Southern Hyde Park.
There are areas in South Seattle and the inner south suburbs that have a larger proportional black population, but the Central District kinda seems like more of a cultural center --- more protests, the Northwest African American Museum, things like African dance studios and African clothing stores that are geared towards celebrating blackness, rather than just businesses that serve the local community which happens to be black.
I think it goes along with the fact that the Central District is one of the most rapidly gentrifying areas in the city (so the need to protect the black Seattleite identity is prominent), has more US blacks (vs. more Africans in much of South Seattle), and is proximate to downtown and other cultural centers like Capitol Hill.
I would say in Houston it would be the Third Ward. Home to Project Row Houses, Beyonce's home. Unity National Bank (only black owned bank in Texas). The Turkey Leg Hut is technically in the Museum District, but its right on the edge of the third ward. At this point it's one of the premier black owned restaurants in the USA in general.
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Here in Sammamish, WA with 65,000 it's only 1.09% black, and they are not in any particular area. I have only seen 1-2 kids around the high schools when they were still open last fall so don't know where they might live. We do, however, have over 30% Asians, of those most from India, with darker skin than many African Americans. Again, they are not in any particular area, but mixed in all spread out over the city. In our case, there is an Indian family across the street and another next door, both millennials with young kids, working in tech at Amazon.
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